27/02/2026
Sam Cooke: Artist, Businessman, Activist, and Legend
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why? On the night of December 10, 1964, Sam Cooke dined with friends at Martoni's restaurant in Los Angeles. By the early morning of December 11, the 33-year-old singer was dead, shot by the manager of a seedy motel. The world was left to grapple with a loss so sudden and suspicious that it would spawn countless conspiracy theories....
If you could be someone else for a day, who would you be, and why? On the night of December 10, 1964, Sam Cooke dined with friends at Martoni’s restaurant in Los Angeles. By the early morning…